Roosevelt township, Pocahontas County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 81 (41% naturalized citizens)
| Roosevelt township: | 80.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
52% of Roosevelt township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8560
- Northeast: 106
- Midwest: 1006
- South: 925
- West: 213
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $82,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 2.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,381
- One, attached: 94
- Two: 360
- 3 or 4: 386
- 5 to 9: 197
- 10 to 19: 91
- 20 to 49: 145
- 50 or more: 118
- Mobile homes: 398
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,600
Housing units in Roosevelt township with a mortgage: 1,266 (130 second mortgage, 62 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,291
- Food (22%)
- Construction (21%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Computer and electronic products (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food (9%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- U. S. Postal service (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Food processing workers (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Roosevelt township:
- United States or American (17.9%)
- German (17.1%)
- English (16.1%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- Italian (5.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (33%)
- Costa Rica (11%)
- Japan (10%)
- Honduras (9%)
- India (8%)
- Jordan (7%)
- Germany (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,958 (86%)
- Carpooled: 487 (11%)
- Taxi: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 61 (1%)
- Other means: 23 (0%)
- Worked at home: 93 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (49%)
- Electricity (47%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
96.9% of residents of Roosevelt township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,523- In family households: 8,439 (2,280 male householders, 672 female householders)
2,331 spouses, 2,745 children (2,474 natural, 79 adopted, 192 stepchildren), 165 grandchildren, 21 brothers or sisters, 37 parents, 73 other relatives, 115 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,084 (670 male householders (527 living alone)), 1,185 female householders (1,117 living alone)), 229 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 487 (482 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,452 2-persons, 691 3-persons, 531 4-persons, 186 5-persons, 64 6-persons, 28 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,644 1-person, 192 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
48 married couples with children.
5 single-parent households (3 men, 2 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 75
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 55
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 23
| Here: | 5.2% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |